Twenty channel vendors were honored as best in class for product innovation, support and partnership at this year's 2010 ARC Awards gala. Here's look at the winners and all the action from XChange Americas Tuesday evening.

The third day of XChange Americas brought plenty of excitement, including a keynote session from billionaire entrepreneur and channel son Mark Cuban. Here's a look at all the highlights from Tuesday, paving the way for the show's wrap-up on Wednesday.

System builders considering the potential for building embedded solutions may want to consider these eight finalist entries from Microsoft's embeddedSPARK Challenge--and gauge whether this area is now ripe for opportunity.

Cloud computing and new revenue opportunities for VARs were all big topics on the first day of XChange Americas, and on Day 2, the discussion showed no signs of slowing down. Here's a look at highlights from Day 2 of XChange Americas.

One of the most anticipated channel events of the year, Everything Channel's XChange Americas conference kicked off Sunday at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas and continues through Wednesday. Here's a visual recap of Day 1 highlights.

Strategic alliances in the networking and infrastructure space aren't new, but ties have been strengthening on a number of fronts -- and even creating some curious bedfellows -- among vendors competing for hot markets like UC, WAN optimization and the data center.

With Mark Hurd out as CEO at HP, we take a look at our shortlist of contenders to be Hurd's successor. Tim Cook from Apple tops the bill, but others include execs from Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper, IBM and a host of other high-tech titans.

Tech companies love trumping up their big sales figures; from Google Android selling 200,000 devices per day to Microsoft saying that seven Windows 7 licenses sell every second. Here we look at 10 tech products and services that trumpet their numbers to bump up their public perception.

Mark Hurd's fall from grace as chairman, president and CEO of HP in the wake of sexual harassment accusations is only the latest in a string of scandals to hit the highest ranks of the IT industry. CRN reviews the salacious details of some of the biggest.

Cisco is always a focus of attention come earnings time, but given all that's happened to the networking giant in the past several months, from gradual supply chain recovery to acquisitions and the growth of UCS, this week's quarterly earnings report has Wall Street and the channel abuzz. Here's what to look for.